PETER TAVY

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"TAVY ST. PETER, a scattered village in the Tavy valley, on the
western borders of Dartmoor, 4 miles N.N.E. of Tavistock, has in
its parish 587 souls, and about 6000 acres of land, of which 91
souls, and about 2450 acres, are in Willsworthy hamlet, a
high moorland district in Lifton Hundred, 6 miles N.N.E. of
Tavistock. The parish also includes Godsworthy, and many
scattered farm houses. The Duke of Bedford is lord of the manors of
Peter Tavy and Huntingdon; but Willsworthy belongs to the Buller
family and the Rev. W. Radcliffe and several smaller owners have
estates in the parish, mostly freehold. The Church (St.
Peter,) has a tower and five bells; and the living is a
rectory valued in K.B. at £17. 1s. 8d., and now in the
patronage of the Bishop of Exeter, and the incumbency of the Rev.
Wm. Macbean, M.A., does not reside here. An ancient chapel at
Willsworthy has long been used as a cowhouse. " [From White's
Devonshire Directory (1850)]

A parish in Roborough Hundred, the Archdeaconry of Totnes and the
Diocese of Exeter. Regarded as part of the Dartmoor area.

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